''Mane Number 13'' () is a 2020 Indian

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directed by Vivy Kathiresan and produced by Krishna Chaitanya under the banner of Sri Swarnalatha Productions. It stars

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, Sanjeev,

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and Aishwarya Gowda. The film was simultaneously made in Kannada and Tamil with the latter titled as ''13aam Number Veedu''. The film was released via streaming on

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on 26 November 2020 to negative reviews.

Cast

Release

The film after delay due to COVID-19 pandemic, was released on

on 26 November 2020, as direct-to-video platform.

Reception

Sowmya Rajendran reviewing for ''

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'' criticized the screenplay as "series of unimaginative scares, with no effort to build the suspense or create tension". He opines that it is horror in itself that the film was made. He concludes that stream the film only if there is a compelling reason and if anyone wants some scares, "... be warned, there is no boo, only boohoo." A critic from ''

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'' rated the film two-and-a-half out of five stars and wrote that "Mane Number 13 can be watched of you're in the mood for some good old fashioned frights without any excessive expectations of being surprised". A critic from ''

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'' rated the film one-and-a-half out of five stars and wrote that "''Mane No 13'' is unabashedly derivative. That isn't the problem. That it chooses to make a spectacle of its penchant for puerility and snuff out any potential for intelligent and logical plot development is".

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*{{IMDb title, tt13242968 Amazon Prime Video original films 2020 direct-to-video films 2020 films Films not released in theaters due to the COVID-19 pandemic Indian horror thriller films Indian multilingual films 2020 horror thriller films 2020s Kannada-language films 2020s Tamil-language films 2020s Indian films